Law and the Humanities at Roma Tre

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Saturday 5 April 2008

Next Lectures: Stefanie Guenthner

Dear all,
next week, Stefanie Guenthner will talk about other very important issues of the Law and Literature movement: interdisciplinarity, legal methodology and legal theory. Here the scheme of her lessons and...don't forget the readings!

Program and Readings:

9th April:
Law and Literature: Interdisciplinarity (re-)visited
Suggested reading: Stanley Fish, Being Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard to Do, in: id., There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech (And it’s a Good Thing Too), New York/Oxford 1994, 231-242.

10th April:
Deconstructive Criticisms of Law Part I:
Legal Methodology or Legal Theory?

Suggested reading: Jack Balkin, Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory, 96 Yale Law Journal (1987), 743 ff.

11th April:
Deconstructive Criticisms of Law Part II:
Legal Methodology or Legal Theory?

Suggested reading: Peter Goodrich, Europe in America. Grammatology, Legal Studies, And The Politics of Transmission, 101 Columbia Law Review (2001), 2033 ff.

Curriculum Vitae:

Stefanie Günthner (* 09.10.1977 in Stuttgart, Germany)

1997-2005 Studies of German and Law at the University of Freiburg
Dec. 2002 M.A. German Literature
June 2005 First German State Diploma in Law
Fall 2005-2006 Visiting Postgraduate Student at Birkbeck Law School, London
Fall 2006-2007 Visiting PhD Student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Since Oct. 2007: Visiting PhD Student at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris)

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